Paris SG v Real Madrid Predictions and Match Preview for Tuesday's CL Round of 16 2nd Leg at Parc des Princes. Unai Emery's side will try and cancel out the two-goal advantage Real Madrid carry into this second leg in France but they will have to achieve such a feat without Brazil striker Neymar, who is set to undergo surgery on his broken foot.

Match status: 2017-18 Champions League 1/8 Finals

Kick-off: Tuesday 06 Mar 2018, 07:45pm GMT

Venue: Parc des Princes (Paris, France)

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On 20 February 2018, the first leg in this tie between the Paris and Madrid club witnessed an impressive second-half comeback from Los Blancos after Adrien Rabiot had put his side in front on 33 minutes, and PSG could have doubled their lead onwards, only for his opener to be cancelled out with a well-converted spot kick by Ronaldo on the stroke of half time.

It was not until the 83rd minute that the Portuguese striker gave his side a 2-1 lead with a close-range finish off his knee before Marcelo rounded off a statement victory for the hosts latching on to Marco Asensio's cross, and The Parisians will require at least two goals so that they get to fight for progress into the last-8 on Tuesday night.

Paris Saint-Germain have been dominant in the Ligue 1, enjoying a 14-point breakaway at the peak of the league table and, since that disappointment in Madrid, Les Parisiens have played excellent football on domestic level, in four subsequent games scoring 13 goals and keeping a clean sheet in three of those (W4), but the Madrid giants are not even close to draw comparisons with.

Meanwhile in Spain, Zinedine Zidane's side are struggling to keep up with the likes of Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the top, despite winning four of the last five league matches following the 3-1 success over the French dominants a fortnight ago. And although they have racked up a confidence-boosting 15 goals for the past two weeks, conceding has been an obvious issue for The Meringues as they failed to prevent six goals in four out of the last five La Liga fixtures, including a dramatic 1-0 defeat by Espanyol last Tuesday.

Cristiano Ronaldo is returning to normal goalscoring form with 10 goals he has netted in the past seven appearances for Los Blancos and could well be one of the commanding figures in the return leg while PSG's top scorer Edinson Cavani will be most responsible for scoring for his side as Neymar has been ruled out of The Whites' visit.

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Why are our predictions certain to succeed?

PSG manager Unai Emery is being very thoughtful of this clash having rested and given limited game time to his key players in Saturday's 2-0 victory at Troyes, of whom were such faces like Dani Alves, Kevin Trapp, Marco Verratti, Edinson Cavani, Javier Pastore, Kylian Mbappe, Thiago Motta and Julian Draxler.

Obviously, the main objective of The Parisians will be turned to attacking and scoring the more goals the better, but whether they can keep free-scoring Real Madrid at bay is a huge task with little chance of accomplishing. Anyway, we believe the hosts can be as dangerous as without Neymar and will cause the Madrid club much trouble offensively so we're going for PSG Over 1.5 Team Goals.

Paris SG vs Real Madrid Predictions

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Given the fact the sides have been so impressive in terms of scoring in recent times, both will be confident of their abilities to get on the scoresheet in this one so we dispassionately predict a 3-1 win for the hosts and the winner of the tie will be decided on penalties.